How Can I Repair Broken Hinges of My Oakley Sunglasses?

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Jan 30, 2020
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Oakley offers a diverse variety of sunglass designs such as club masters, wrap-around and Retro Square. They also provide sunglasses with various styles, lens color, frame color size, face shape, usage, coverage, lens material, frame material and theme. Once we have got our favorite pair of sunglasses, initially we take a lot of care about them, but with time without even knowing we start abusing our sunglasses and they break. One of the most common damages to sunglasses is that the hinges break.

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What Is a Sunglass Hinge?

The hinges of a sunglass are the movable joints that connect the temples to other parts of the frame and allow the temples to fold inwards.

There are many times of sunglass hinges like standard hinges and Spring Hinges. Now–a–days a few frames are also made without hinges. These are hinge-less frames.

What Causes Them to Break?

There are several habits of ours that break our sunglasses like taking them off with one hand, not putting them back in the case, putting them on the top of our head, leaving them on the windshield, exercising, and playing high-intensity sports with the wrong type of glasses on and fall asleep with them on. Letting other people wear your sunglasses can also stretch the frame and result in broken hinges.

How Can You Repair Broken Hinges of Your Oakley Sunglasses?

Wondering about how to repair the broken hinge of your Oakley sunglasses?

  • If you lose a hinge screw: Especially for spring hinges its common to lose the hinge screw. You will need a screw, s screwdriver, and a paper pin. With the paper, pin hold back the spring by inserting the pin into the small notch of the arm. Place the joints in their position, put in the screw, and then fasten it with a screwdriver.
  • Hinge comes off from plastic frames: Such breakages can be repaired by using a donor hinge. You will need to buy the smallest available hinge for small wooden crafts available at the hardware store, super glue, pliers, and a lighter. Slowly heat the pliers using a lighter and remove the metal hinge using pliers. Cut the hinges to the required size. Then first glue one part to the arm by holding it with the pliers. After it sets in, glue the other part to the rest of the frames.
  • When the frame body breaks: In the case of both plastic and metal frame if the body breaks, it’s always better to get professional help. You can visit any optical store near you or for better service contact repair centers such as Eyeglass Repair USA where they repair almost no glasses using precision laser welding and make them as good as new. Many opticians also have a lab to repair glasses. You can also visit them.

Now that you know the methods of repairing your glasses hope you don’t have to look up online anymore for Oakley Repair Glasses

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